We have discovered a vestige of a remainder of that time-honored and supposedly fictitious Harvard indifference: A senior once languidly remarked, as he entered Appleton Chapel to hear the Baccalaureate Sermon, "Well this is the first and last time I'll go in here;" and a Junior once admitted, when asked where the College Chapel was, that he did not know. Pathetic, yes, and humorous, but a kind of pathos and humor that can make hypocrites of a good many of us. For several years after compulsory Chapel was abolished, such episodes might have been expected, for a reaction is normal after any ailment. Undoubtedly the next Count at Harvard will convulse us with tales of the present morning Chapel, or rather lack of it. But we think that the time is here of Harvard men to come to a realization of the fact that a happy medium is desirable. Therefore we say pathetic, humorous, and disgraceful.

Now we do not blame Freshmen for not attending Chapel, for a secret feeling is instilled into them that it is "not the thing to do." We do blame the upperclassmen who allow this feeling to take root. Whether or not they know it, they are continually setting the standards towards which new classes will strive, and what they taboo new students will taboo. Originality is not so prevalent as some may think and is frequently snubbed when met. And so it rests with the serious-minded upperclassmen, particularly the men who have made good in the College world, to most one of the last shreds of Harvard indifferences. If these men would attend Chapel regularly, we are certain that an increasing number of new students could say that, though Chapel was not compulsory at Harvard, they liked to go to the services and generally did because they were inspiring and because the best men went. We all of us willing to do what is "au fait" but few of us have the moral courage to do a thing unless it is strictly conventional. Here is the chance for the fortunate ones with that courage and the personality to back it to conventionalize attendance at Chapel until it can stand alone.